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Greek Cypriot president Nicos Anastasiades has warned U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon that time is needed to negotiate a deal reunifying the ethnically-split island without "deficiencies, gaps and ambiguities" that may lead Greek and Turkish Cypriots to reject it in referendums. 

Turkey broke its all-time natural gas usage record on Jan. 25-26, as 235 million cubic meters were used across the country due to cold weather.

More than 1.1 billion cubic meters (bcm) of gas was consumed during the period of Jan. 25-29, hitting another record on a weekly basis, according to data compiled by Anadolu Agency from the Energy Ministry. 

Bulgaria's Prime Minister Boyko Borisov is to take part in the Supporting Syria and the Region conference in London on Thursday, his press office has said.

Borisov is also to meet members of the Bulgarian community during his visit which is set to go on for two days (February 03-04).

Fatalities among migrants and refugees in the Mediterranean in January topped 360 due to a particularly deadly final weekend of the month, when over 100 men, women in and children died in the waters off Greece, Turkey and Italy, the International Organization for Migrations said on Tuesday.

Brazil warned pregnant women on Feb. 1 to stay away from the Summer Olympics after the World Health Organization (WHO) declared an international emergency over the Zika virus, blamed for causing a surge in brain-damaged babies.

Russian gas giant Gazprom said on Feb. 2 its gas exports to Turkey increased by 3.4 percent in January from the same month a year earlier to 2.82 billion cubic meters (bcm), said Chairman of the company's management committee Alexey Miller on Feb. 2, adding that the country is still Gazprom's second-biggest customer now.

A total of 30 people, including 16 foreigners and nine children, have been detained in the border provinces of Kilis and Gaziantep for suspected links with the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), the Turkish General Staff announced on Feb. 2.

Police detained two suspected suicide bombers in the Aegean province of Ayd?n at a bus terminal on Feb. 2.

The suspects were caught while they were about to head to the neighboring ?zmir province from the Söke bus terminal.

A kalashnikov rifle, a hand grenade, bombing material, and ammunition were also seized in the luggage of the two suspects.

Two people were killed and five were wounded in an armed attack at a tea house in Istanbul's Küçükçekmece district late on Feb. 1. 

Police detained six suspects during an operation following the incident.  

Seven people wounded when two masked men attacked a tea house in the Kanarya neighborhood of Küçükçekmekce with a long-barreled weapon and a handgun. 

Nine migrants, including two children, died when their boat sank off Turkey's Aegean coast on Feb. 2.

Security forces were informed about migrants on the Seferihisar shore of ?zmir province. Eleven migrants who were waiting on the shore said the fiber boat sank due to the waves.